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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Crell @jerry Meanwhile, yesterday someone went out of their way on the birdsite to tag me in a post calling me an assortment of slurs.

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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Crell @jerry speaking of the birdsite, before the API got locked down, I spent a fair amount of effort building network analysis tools to proactively identify and block bigots. Turns out assholes like to follow each other.

It was deeply satisfying when news about me came out and a bunch of people who had never interacted with me and weren't on any shared blocklists were complaining about being blocked by me.

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Crell @jerry I also had an IFF (identify friend or foe) script that would pull following/follower data, compare against my my own block, mute, following, and follower lists, and compute a score.

Rickd6

@ryanc @jerry @Crell perhaps there’s a way to make this available to members so they can implement it when they sign up?

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Rickd6 @jerry @Crell It's not clear to me that it would work here. Part of the issue is it sounds like the trolls often spin up new disposable instances for trolling purposes and wouldn't have useful data.

Rickd6

@Crell @ryanc @jerry is it possible to ‘fight fire with fire’ in that when someone identifies that they are receiving harassment a group of individuals- obviously a prearranged group- can be contacted who will respond overwhelmingly to the harassing individual to call them out? Sounds childish when said out loud and may make them dig in further but …..

Larry Garfield replied to Rickd6

@Rickd6 @ryanc @jerry "My gang is bigger than your gang" is the approach used in a failed society.

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